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Canadian health officials reported that swine flu is hospitalizing three to four times as many children as regular seasonal flu. [350] On 30 May, New Zealand had 9 confirmed cases and 10 probables. During June cases in New Zealand rose rapidly. On 14 June the Ministry of Health announced a 65% increase in cases in just 24 hours.
[434] [435] A consensus report by American intelligence agencies in April 2021 concluded, "Efforts to contain and manage the virus have reinforced nationalist trends globally, as some states turned inward to protect their citizens and sometimes cast blame on marginalised groups". COVID-19 inflamed partisanship and polarisation around the world ...
[31] [32] In the past, many diseases have been named after geographical locations, such as the Spanish flu, [33] Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Zika virus. [34]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain has resulted in 13,980,340 [4] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 121,852 [4] deaths.. The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. [3]
Concerns about and research of avian influenza (bird flu) H5N1 rise as increasing spillovers to and between mammals are reported, [needs update] [262] with the incoming WHO chief scientist warning governments should invest in H5N1 vaccines for all flu strains, [263] and prepare for a potential outbreak among humans (pandemic preparedness), [255 ...
Women born during the first decade of the twentieth century saw another dip fertility because they came of age during the First World War, the Spanish flu epidemic, and the Great Depression. [31] Today, population aging and falling birth rates in the U.S. are driven by a variety of factors.
Another three Italian female tourist and another person in Tenerife tested positive, raising the total to 13 active cases and 3 recoveries, 9 of them in Tenerife and 4 in Gran Canaria. [135] [136] In Cantabria a new case, a "young person" who has been infected in the Basque Country, which currently records a total of 11 cases in the community ...
In the United States 34% of recycling companies partially or completely closed. In many Asian countries, including India, Malaysia and Vietnam, only around one-third of recyclers continued daily operations due to anti-pandemic measures. Many informal waste pickers have been seriously affected by stay-at-home orders and business closures.